Utter Silence

Silence
   so loud
who knows the sound?
   Who, at a point in life has not utterly drowned
in what
is silence?

Always searching
   reaching for something
Beyond the veil
    into the darkness
Catching a glimpse
    of the life
        so, needed
heart beat rapid
           never completed
yet never grasping
at full life
       set back
 in silence

Oh, how I wish
  I could run 
      so free
On fields of green
   the rivers, 
      the trees

And Sunlight!
  oh, what wonderous warmth
with flowered aromas
           and air so sweet

Yet
Silence...
is always around
     Tell me 
dear stranger
           Where is life found?
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